Yapt v0.3
Yapt (yet another performance test) is a benchmark recommended by a pair of drive manufacturers and was incredibly difficult to locate as it hasn’t been updated or used in quite some time. That doesn’t make it irrelevant by any means though, as the benchmark is quite useful. It creates a test file of about 100 MB in size and runs both random and sequential read and write tests with it while changing the data I/O size in the process. The results are a good look at overall drive performance.
Yapt shows Agility 3 comparable to Vertex 3 across the board.
I tested a Vertex 2 120GB
I tested a Vertex 2 120GB against an Agility 3 120GB on an X58 (3Gb) and found them to be very close in most things with the Vertex having a slight advantage except for Random Read/Write 4KB (QD=1) and burst speeds.
I realize that the Agility 3 is designed for 6Gb so my test is not entirely fair.
dude, they both peak at
dude, they both peak at 275mb/s which is max speed for sata 3gbps…its not exactly a wonder why u cant see much of a difference when you put a 550mb drive on a 275mb line and compare it with a 275mb drive
Allyn: another good review.
Allyn: another good review. I’m just adding this Comment to remind you about our private correspondence, in which we discussed a test to determine if TRIM works on OS software RAIDs when the RAID members are formatted as “dynamic” partitions.
Cheers and … thanks for the great reviews!
MRFS